Badge-bar.



No. 675,2!4. Patented May 28, l90l.

B. HARRIS.

BADGE BAR.

(Application fllad. Nov. 21, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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BENJAMIN HARRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BADGE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,214, dated May 28, 1901.

Application filed November 21, 1900. Serial No. 37,199. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Badge- Bar, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved device of that class, generally known as badgebars, by means of which a ribbon is fastened to the coat of a person, to which end the invention includes a bar proper ornamented at its front face at the will of the maker and provided at its rear face with peculiarly-arranged pins, one being adapted to pierce the coat of the user and the other to engage with the ribbon and suspend it.

This specification is a specific description of several forms of the invention while the claim is a definition of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front View of the invention. Fig. 2 is a back view. Fig. 3 is a View of the blank from which the bar itself is struck. Fig. 4 is a view of a slightly-modified form of the invention, adapting it to the reception of a panel bearing, if desired, a legend or any character suitable to the occasion; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the body or main part a of the bar proper is formed, preferably, integral with the end parts b and c, the whole being stamped out of a sheet of metal. The end parts I) and c are circular in general contour, and the part b has its edges slit, as shown, so that it may be rolled backward to produce the tubulation indicated at b in Fig. 2. This tubulation carries the butt (1 of the pins d and (1 These pins are formed, preferably, of an integral length of wire and are fastened by the engagement of the butt (1 within the tubular part b. The ends of the pins project toward the end 0 of the bar and are respectively engaged with keepers c and 0 which are struck up from the material forming the bar. These pins are situated at the back of the bar, and the pin (1 serves to engage the coat, while the pin (:1 is adapted to carry the ribbon. This leaves the front of the bar unbroken by the appearance of anything pertaining to the pins and permits me to ornament the bar in any manner desired.

If it be desired to use a panel in connection with the bar, this may be applied as indicated at c in Figs. 4 and 5. This panel may be constructed of metal, paper, or celluloid, or any material desired, and its form is essentially that of the blank shown in Fig. 3, excepting that it is not so large, and for the purpose of securing the panel in place 1 form in the end portions 1) and c of the blank arc-shaped slits b and 0 corresponding with the shape of the circular end portions 1) and c, and which are adapted to receive the ends of the panel 6. This panel is placed in position before the blank is bentthat is to say, when the blank is in the form shown in Fig. 3-and then the edge of the end I) is tubulated and the keepers c ,and c are bent back, so as to serve the double purpose of holding the pins d and d and of securing the ends of the celluloid, as indicated in Fig. 5. For further securing the panel short tabs a may be struck up from the body of the bar and bent downward in front of the panel to hold its middle part, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A badge-bar, comprising a main or body portion having enlarged ends of essentially circular form, one of said ends having its circular edge rolled backward and tubulated to form a bearing and the opposite end portion of the body having two lips formed thereon, such lips being bent backward to form keepers, and two pins connected together by an arc-shaped butt, said butt being clamped in the bearing on the body and the free ends of the pins being respectively engageabie with the keepers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN HARRIS.

Witnesses:

I. B. OWENS, JNo. M. BITTER. 

